Pretty much expected, but anything bringing more supply to the market, from a different reseller who will want you to buy their stuff instead of someone else’s, will help here. It’s a force that’ll pull down the price more in time.

Honestly, I expect RAM prices will plummet in the future. Basically every RAM manufacturer has announced huge factory expansions, the disastrous consumer market is legitimizing these Chinese competitors that are improving and growing quickly, and I can’t imagine the AI demand is permanent. Companies will get tired of spending a fortune on replacing GPUs before they’ve even come close to earning back their cost, and the market will be flooded with supply for a while.

RAM has gone through this cycle several times before, with all the collusion and price-fixing those companies do. If anything, these Chinese companies outside of the existing manufacturers should make a permanent improvement in the market, assuming they don’t just lobby our governments into banning them for nonsensical “security concerns”.

Yuuup, smashed a controller or two in my time, and quickly learned that I don’t like when my stuff breaks, and have to master my emotions better/find better ways to vent, and then I did. Wild to watch full grown adults who never learned the same, and are just… wasting money replacing things, I guess.

I don’t know why he thinks this will work. He’s truly losing it.

Netflix already know they aren’t his favourite, that was abundantly clear with him backing Paramount to buy Warner Bros. Larry Ellison is his favourite boy, there’s no incentive for Netflix to acquiesce here.

Meanwhile, he’s obviously Streisand-effecting these comments, I never would’ve known the Netflix CEO called him unpopular if he wasn’t throwing a hissy fit about it.

Not a huge user of screensharing, but it does come up, and I’d probably miss it if I lost it. Here’s a few recent examples:

• Playing a 1v1 PVP game, such as Elden Ring or Armoured Core, taking turns with 3 players, it’s nice to be able to share POVs so that the waiting player can watch.
• Setting up for a TTRPG, it was nice to share the online character builder to more easily ask for advice on something like “which move should I take?”.
• Playing Valheim, we all died except 1, and he shared his screen so we could guide him to our bodies with the materials to build a portal for us to get back easily.

I’m certainly not sharing my screen all the time, but it comes up fairly often that something happens that you want to show the group when they can’t just look at it with you in-game. It all depends on what kinds of games you’re playing and how large a group you’re playing with.

Does “liberate” actually imply theft in a way I’m missing? I assumed that meant he bought the chicken when I first read it, but nobody in these comments seems to think that.

No kidding. I had already been fairly interested and excited about the mod that already does this, but unfortunately knew it would somewhat split the modding community, as any mod complex enough to call OpenGL directly for anything naturally doesn’t work.

Minecraft switching guarantees mods will support it though. This should be a major boon for the performance of shaders and other visual mods going forward, once mods complete the transition.

I assume locally you just display whatever gender’s dialogue regardless, but your character on the server will naturally have the wrong gender?

Or maybe the server-side validation of selected body type/gender isn’t actually enforcing a match, despite the client only offering one or the other?

Poking around briefly, it sounds like there’s several options, which is a pretty rad use case, actually.

There’s also DolphinXR, for playing Wii games on a virtual screen using VR controllers for substantially better pointer and motion controls than original hardware could muster.

I think it’s so neat in general when VR can be used to more accurately capture/enhance the experience of weird original hardware.

It may be a low bar, but dang if most companies aren’t ready to limbo.

Solid advice, I’ve been using the “restore checkpoint” feature to go back to before it started trying an approach without totally tossing my context, and it’s certainly easier than arguing with it or ignoring its reminders to try X.

I’ve definitely seen it be stubborn like that in my tinkering with it, just absolutely locked on to a specific approach like a dog with a bone, even after I’ve already started nudging it to move on and try something else. I assume that’s a result of “recency bias” in its memory, missing the forest for the trees, because I don’t need that solution to work, I need a solution to my original problem, preferably the most elegant and least hacky solution.

Certainly one of the things that indicates to me that LLMs will be best used by someone who knows what they’re doing for the foreseeable future. Shame it also creates so much deskilling and discourages learning those skills in the first place. Absolutely something that worries me for our future.

Fair point, although I give credit to the way it tied into the grander narrative. A Hornet more focused on loftier goals and not individuals is a Hornet who’s susceptible to the call for power, and replaces Grandmother Silk, while only a Hornet who cares more about individuals and helping everyone, no matter how minor, is truly capable of resisting that impulse and finding another path.

I’ll add some other good questions to ask yourself to catch AI:

1. Who’s holding this camera? How are they getting this angle?
2. How is the camera work in the situation? AI tends to be smooth and even movements, like it’s on a track and stabilized, unlike real footage in hectic scenarios.

The best part is, these are somewhat unlikely to be fixed in the near future, as footage looking “professional” is desirable for the AI companies, unlike gibberish text and questionable physics.

Diagram in the link preview (and also in the article) is a little confusing, because “invaluable” subverts the usual meaning of the “in” prefix, with “invaluable” meaning:

extremely useful; indispensable

Which makes the diagram suggest that deep focus gets good results, but unfocused and distracted work gets the best results.

Yeah, I’d say NSO is now on the level I’d expect from a company offering. Still doesn’t compete with fan offerings, I.E. I can now play Windwaker on Switch 2, in a similar experience to original GameCube hardware, but on Dolphin I can play Windwaker with a widescreen code, in native 4K or higher, and using a fanmade texture pack like Hypatia’s, and the game is gorgeous. I can additionally access top-quality content like the randomizer, or even archipelago, with all sorts of optional enhancements like the swift sail. Or I could even emulate the Wii U remaster.

But, it’s meeting the level I expect from a paid team that has a few years targeting a mobile chipset, compared to decades of accumulated passionate fan effort. It’s reasonable, unlike at release where the N64 emulation had swathes of issues not even present on Wii/Wii U Virtual Console, for example.

Ooh, excited to see the benchmarks on this. The Linux AMD performance is really beating Windows (bar very close scenarios where the proton overhead wins out) in basically every area except raytracing, and I think it obviously has the potential to beat Windows there too.

I’m one of the weirdos who would love to play some more path traced games in 5-10 years, whether that be older games like RT64 implementing it for the static recomp titles like Zelda OoT and MM, or Radiance implementing full path tracing into Java Minecraft, I’d love to see the drivers get to the point where this stuff is totally viable at high framerates+resolution an AMD graphics generation or two down the line.

Surprisingly well! For my team, at least, we’ve put a lot of work in since Paris to better handle the load of running so many events simultaneously, and it’s paying off in spades this year. Significantly less stressful than Paris thus far.

As a developer supporting the Olympics at CBC, thank you for the heart attack lol.

Up north person here, no carpets in my house (they’re often considered old-fashioned here nowadays), but dang if road salt isn’t a scourge upon interiors. We have a mat in our entrance, and leave our shoes on a tray to contain the salt and mud, and even living in an apartment where I walk in interiors for a bit before entering our home, there’s frequently enough salt to buildup and stain our floors white.

The salt is absolutely necessary to melt the ice outside, but we have to mop our entrance multiple times a week, it’s 100% the primary reason Canadians are shoes-off, I’d assume the northern states are the same.

Ugh, it was fine during the endless parade of countries and athletes, but putting it in the middle of the best part of the show (the second major song) was so obnoxious, for 4 ads back-to-back that were all repeated elsewhere in the broadcast? I’m still quite annoyed about it. I understand needing to run a fair number of ads for funding reasons, but don’t undercut the best part by shrinking it and literally muting the music.